Weekend Cartoons: Plumbing the Depths With Don & the Feds
But first, a pit stop in my home state . . . Onward to Palm Beach . . . . . . And a diversion from politics . . .
Category Archives: Signs of the Times
Super-Secret Docs Found in Mar-a-Lago Stash: Reports
Top-Level Classified Documents Found in FBI Seizure: CNN-WSJ-POLITICO (CNN) – The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents from its search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, including some materials marked as “top secret/SCI,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The newspaper reported that FBI agents removed about 20 boxes from former President Donald Trump’s resort … Continue reading Super-Secret Docs Found in Mar-a-Lago Stash: Reports
Update: Quotes of the Weekend: Two Glimpses of Afghanistan, A Year after Withdrawal
[NOTE: Gwynne Dyer has been reporting on and analyzing wars for decades; he has a doctorate in military history & strategy. Adela Raz was the last Afghan ambassador to the U. S. Their perspectives a year later are distinct, succinct, valuable and illuminating.] Afghanistan: down the memory hole Gwynne Dyer Aug 10, 2022 It’s only … Continue reading Update: Quotes of the Weekend: Two Glimpses of Afghanistan, A Year after Withdrawal
Charlottesville: Anniversary of An Atrocity
I Was Injured by a White Supremacist in Charlottesville. Strangers Lifted Me Up. New York Times — Aug. 11, 2022 By Constance Paige Young Ms. Paige Young is a racial justice activist and an advocate for survivors of sexual violence. She was among the counterprotesters injured in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017. In July 2017 … Continue reading Charlottesville: Anniversary of An Atrocity
The “Quaker Scout”: Highlighting A Very Relevant Piece of Quaker History
In 1848 Quaker farmer Jonathan Roberts moved his family south from New Jersey to a new farm in northern VA in 1848. He arrived with high hopes and even higher ideals. The new spread adjoined George Washington’s Mt. Vernon plantation, already a historic site for the still-young nation. Yet with its distinguished lineage, the property … Continue reading The “Quaker Scout”: Highlighting A Very Relevant Piece of Quaker History